Lafayette County
Lafayette County is a county in the U.S. state of Mississippi. At the 2020 census, the population was 55,813. Its county seat is Oxford. The local pronunciation of the name is "la-FAY-et." The county's name honors Marquis de Lafayette, a French military hero and American general who fought during the American Revolutionary War.
- Type: county of Mississippi with 47,400 residents
- Description: county in Mississippi, United States
- Also known as: “Condado de Lafayette, Misisipi”, “La Fayette County”, “Lafayette”, “Lafayette County i Mississippi”, “Lafayette County, Miss.”, “Lafayette County, Mississippi”, “Lafayette County, MS”, “Lafayette ilçesi, Miss.”, “Lafayette ilçesi, Mississippi”, and “Lafayette ilçesi, MS”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Lucius Q. C. Lamar House and Lyric Theater.
Lyric Theater
Theater building
The Lyric is a historical theater located… Lyric Theater is situated 2 miles west of Lafayette County.
Rowan Oak
Historic building
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oxford.
Lafayette County
- Location: Mississippi, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.3568° or 34° 21′ 24″ north
Longitude
-89.4849° or 89° 29′ 6″ west
Population
47,400
Elevation
446 feet (136 metres)
Open location code
866G9G48+P2
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Lafayette County” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Lafayette County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة لافاييت”
- Armenian: “Լաֆայետ շրջան”
- Asturian: “condáu de Lafayette”
- Basque: “Lafayette konderria”
- Bavarian: “Lafayette County, Mississippi”
- Bavarian: “Lafayette County”
- Belarusian: “Ляфает”
- Bishnupriya: “লাফায়েত কাউন্টি, মিসিসিপি”
- Bishnupriya: “লাফায়েত কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Лафайет”
- Catalan: “comtat de Lafayette”
- Cebuano: “Lafayette County”
- Chechen: “Лафайетт (гуо, Миссисипи)”
- Chechen: “Лафайетт”
- Chinese: “拉法叶县”
- Chinese: “拉法葉縣”
- Danish: “Lafayette County”
- Dutch: “Lafayette County”
- Esperanto: “kantono Lafayette”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Lafayette”
- Estonian: “Lafayette’i maakond”
- Finnish: “Lafayetten piirikunta”
- French: “comté de Lafayette”
- French: “Comté de Lafayette”
- Galician: “condado de Lafayette”
- Georgian: “ლაფაიეტის ოლქი”
- German: “Lafayette County”
- Gilaki: “لافایت ٚ شأرستان (ميسيسيپي)”
- Gilaki: “لافایت ٚ شأرستان”
- Greek: “κομητεία Λαφαγιέτ”
- Greek: “Κομητεία Λαφαγιέτ”
- Hungarian: “Lafayette megye”
- Irish: “Contae Lafayette”
- Italian: “contea di Lafayette”
- Italian: “Contea di Lafayette”
- Japanese: “ラファイエット郡”
- Korean: “라피엣군”
- Latin: “Lafayette Comitatus”
- Low German: “Lafayette County”
- Mazanderani: “لافایت شهرستان”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Lafayette Gông”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lafayette Kūn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lafayette County”
- Norwegian: “Lafayette County”
- Persian: “شهرستان لافایت، میسیسیپی”
- Persian: “شهرستان لافایت”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Lafayette”
- Portuguese: “condado de Lafayette”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Lafayette”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Lafayette, Mississippi”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Lafayette”
- Russian: “Лафайетт”
- Russian: “Лафейетт”
- Sardinian: “contea de Lafayette”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Lafayette County”
- Serbian: “Округ Лафејет”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lafayette County, Mississippi”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lafayette County”
- Spanish: “condado de Lafayette”
- Spanish: “Condado de Lafayette”
- Swedish: “Lafayette County, Mississippi”
- Swedish: “Lafayette County”
- Tatar: “Лафайетт (округ, Миссисипи)”
- Tatar: “Лафайетт”
- Turkish: “Lafayette County, Mississippi”
- Turkish: “Lafayette ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Лафаєтт”
- Urdu: “لافائیٹ کاؤنٹی، مسیسپی”
- Urdu: “لافائیٹ کاؤنٹی”
- Venetian: “contea de Lafayette”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Lafayette, Mississippi”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Lafayette”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Lafayette, Mississippi”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Lafayette”
- Welsh: “Lafayette County, Mississippi”
- Welsh: “Lafayette County”
- Western Panjabi: “لافائٹ کاؤنٹی،مسسسپی”
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